What did you try? I'm thinking the nails may be sacrificial. I can get a new ate and nails if needed. But we'll see what I can try soon.

Well I managed it… I have the guitar stripped and in grain fill now. A few weeks to go in work on it, but it’ll be transformed soon

I am telling you from my own experience. I bought the exact same guitar as my first guitar. Well I actually have a chinese copy of a Strat, but this one supposed to have good pick ups, wood and all. I came to really enjoy it and be able to play on it in a confident way, but man, first impression was that I want to send it back. It was extremely complicated but I am so in love with the shape of this guitar that I came to overcome these issues. But hear me out. It has a horrible neck dive, you can't really play in a normal position (regular guitar), only classical. Your left leg might hurt after extensive playing and unless you have a very good strap, it will slip and dive like crazy. BUT, it is a great guitar, it sounds amazing (I cannot stress this enough). However, as main guitar, probably a Les Paul will do the trick. Or maybe consider the Explorer. Good luck.

@@sergiunita4257 hey man! Thanks for the feedback. After thinking for a big while, I bought the sg custom. It's sharp looking black beauty with gold pickups. It's a bit of a weird shape, and I also had a bad first impression of the neck placement and neck dive, but I loved it so much that I kept it and now I can't put it down and every other guitar seems uncomfortable to me, especially les pauls. I didn't try the flying v, but I see it being my 2nd or 3rd guitar, 2nd being a strat for single coil fun

What do you mean with „outfitted with cheap shit“? What do you exactly expect for the price instead?

@@user-wt4pw1sx4m a little quality for $1200. Is that so hard?

You wrote something about „outfitted with cheap shit“. That’s why I was asking. All the reviews I have read and seen are very positive. Sorry for you that you got a bad one.

You sent back a Gibson Custom shop collaboration with Epiphone of an exact 1958 flying V that cost $400,000. Those crack were intentionally done to replicate a vintage Flying V, in a few years that guitar you sent back will be worth more than the $1,299 that it cost now when they stop making them. Top of the line CTS potentiometer, custom shop guitar case, .022 mallory capacitors, Gibson burstbucker 3 & 2 lead and neck humbucker pickups, an neck joint just like they have on the Gibson custom shop Korina Flying V that cost $10,000. We'll you live and hopefully you learn that you had ownership of a one of a kind deal when Gibson stops making this Epiphone version of a Flying V based on their custom shop measurements.

@@mikebledsoe2315 dude, those cracks weren’t intentional, dumbass. And if they were, it was the worst attempt at checking I’ve ever seen. It was four cracks, two in the neck and two on the body. The guitar felt cheap! Period.